Dauber for blacking-brushes



(No Model.)

M. M. DESSAU.

DAUBER FOR BLAGKING BRUSHES.

No. 351,098. Patented Oct. 19,1886.

l & r J l ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORLAND M. DESSAU, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

DAUBER FOR BLACKlNG-BRUSHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 351,098, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed January 15, 1886. Serial No. 189,762. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MORLAND M. DEssAU, of South Framingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massach usetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Daubers for Shoe-Blacking, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the anneXed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved dauber. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is a horizontal diagonal cross-section taken on line 00 m in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical trans verse section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention consists in the constructionand arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Hy invention consists in a brush formed of bristles clamped in an annular space, and in an adjustable ferrule surrounding the body of the dauber or brush and adapted to sustain the bristles.

The brush forming the body of the dauber is composed of bristles A, clamped in an annular space, E, between the ferrule G and the tapering plug D The ferrule O is preferably formed of wire wound in a closed spiral and soldered together. The bristles A are placed in the ferrule O, and are forced outward against the inner wall of the ferrule by the tapering plug 1), which clamps the bristles securely between the plug and the ferrule, and forms abrush which is well filled in the center and is solid around the circumference. The bristles thus clamped may be cemented in the usual way. The handle is secured to the top of the brush by two ordinary gimlet-pointed screws passing through the handle and into the plug D.

The bridle E surrounds the ferrule O, and

is provided with a spiral slot, (1, which extends around about one-half of the circumference of the ferrule and from one edge thereof to the other. A stud, b, secured to the ferrule 0, projects through the slot a. By turning the bridle E upon the ferrule O in 'one direction the engagement of the stud b with the slot a causes the bridle E to slide downward over the bristles toward the end of the brush, and turning the bridle E in the opposite direction causes it to be withdrawn.

The bridle E supports the ends of the bristles as they are worn away, and may be gradually withdrawn from the bristles in the manner already described until the bristles are so short as to be of no further use.

Although I have described my improvement in connection with a dauber, I do not limit it to that particular kind of a brush, as it may with equal advantage be applied to stencil and other stiff brushes.

I am aware that a brush has been secured.

on a movable spindle or screw passed through a head or cross-piece of a surrounding bridle or casing, so that the brush may be drawn into or forced out ofsaid bridle, and I do not claim the same as of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A brush consisting of the block, the bristles around the block, the ferrule securing the bristles to the block, a bridle surrounding the ferrule and formed with the diagonal slot, and a pin projecting from the ferrule through the slot in the bridle, whereby by turning the bridle it will also move vertically over or away from the bristles according to the direction turned, substantially as set forth.

MORLAND M. DESSAU.

Witnesses:

HOMER R. MILLER, JOHN B. LOMBARD. 

